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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man

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